Entry № 2793 · Welsh origin

Eira Eira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Snow"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Welsh)

A name that means "snow".

Eira is a Welsh name meaning "snow" — and is often given to daughters born in winter. The same word in Welsh is used for the snowfall itself.

Eira has been a popular Welsh girls' name throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The name is rising slowly in the English-speaking world as Welsh names enter wider use. Two soft syllables and a winter landscape.

Snow. The Welsh word, used as a name.

The name in its native script.

Eira
Transliteration
Eira
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eira stands.

Eira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Eiras before her.

Real people
Eira Davies
Welsh artist.
born 1942
In fiction

Names connected to Eira.

The number behind Eira.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eira reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.